How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
ANNE LAMOTTOne thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Hope begins in the dark.
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The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
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But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.
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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Never compare your insides to everyone else’s outsides.
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Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.
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I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
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I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
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I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it’s over, it’s over.
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I can tell you that what you’re looking for is already inside you.
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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don’t be an asshole.
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The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
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